Railroad-tie.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 19 06.

N. BENJAMIN.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB17. 190a.

W/TNESSES gnome NEWTO BENJAMIN, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK. RAILROAD-TIE;

7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

.. Application filed February 7, 1906. Serial No. 299L926.

To all whom it mag -concern: 1'

' Be it known that I, NEWTON BENJAMIN, -a

' resident of Elmira, in the county of Chemung make and use the same. a My inventlon relates to lmprovements and State of New York, have invented certam new and useful Improvements in Railroad-T1es and I do hereby declare the follow- 'ing to be a-full, clear, andexact description of the lnvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to is rallroad-tles, and more particularly to improvements upon the construction disclosed -1I1 Patent No. 524,999, grantedto me August 28, 1894. In my patented construction I employ inverted Trails, with blocks or other devices secured between the rails to support the railroad-rails, and in the resent invention I dispense with all necessity for separate supportin devices for the rails and instead provide c annel-irons securedback to back, af fording a wide base and top to receive the rail without additional supporting mechanism; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a planlview illustrating my improvements.

,Figs. 2 and 3 are views in section, and Figs. 4

I and 5 are views of a modification.

'1 1 represent channel-irons riveted to- A etherat one end and extending back to back or about one-third their length, then flared apart and again extending parallel in strai ht lines, and having short sections 2 of sim1 ar channel-irons securely riveted thereto with back to'back of said irons 1 1.

These channel-irons 1 and 2 have base-flanges 3 of greater width than their top flanges 4, afl'ordng a firm support for the tie, and the top ing Witnesses.

screw-threaded to receive nuts 9 to clamp the plates 8 against rails 5 and firmly secure the rails to the ties. These clamping-plates 8 are'preferably located diagonally with relation to each other, so that one plate will be on one channel-iron and one on the other, and henceprevent the cutting of two holes close together in the same channel-iron.

.In the modification show'n in Figs. 4 and 5 a straight channel-iron 10 is shown having short sections of channel-iron 11 secured to its flat or back side at its ends, and the baseflange of'this channel-iron 10 may be cut away at its central portion to avoid posslbility of the tie binding in the center. preferred form of my invention might also be provided with cut-out portions for this purose and a reat many other changes might e made in t e eneral form andarrangement of the parts described without departing from my invention. myself to the Hence I do not restrict recisedetails set forth, but

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consider mysef at liberty to make such slight changes and alterationsas fairly fall within the s irit and sco e of my invention. 1

Havingfu I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let.- ters Patent, is

1. A railroad-tie comprising a channeliron member of sufficient length to extend under both rails of a track, and a shorter channel-iron member to be disposed under one of the rails of a track, said channel-iron members secured together back to back.

2. A railroad-tie, comprising two channelirons secured together at one end, flared apart at their other ends, and short sections of channel-ironssecured to the flared ends of the first-mentioned channel-irons.

3. A railroad-tie, comprising two channelirons secured together at one end, flared a art at their other end, short sections of c annel-irons secured to the flared end of the first-mentioned channel-irons, and all of said channel-irons having wider flanges at their base than at the top.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribj- NEWTON BENJAMIN. Witnesses:

E. J. STEELE, RAY D. PALMER.

ly described my invention, what. 

